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Rubber Made from Chewed Gum Could Replace Plastic

Image via The Gumdrop Bin It’s not news that chewing gum is the scourge of city sidewalks. Nor that it takes a lot of money and energy to clear gum off walkways, shortening the lifespan of the surfaces at the same time. Designer Anna Bullus read the statistics of the gum problem in London — that the government spends £150 million annually to clean up gum, over 30,000 pieces of which end up stuck to Oxford street alone each day — and she decided there must be a better way to deal with the problem. So, she headed to the laboratory and came up with a way to transform chewed gum into a us… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Immortal Specie In The Kingdom Animalia!

(Photo: Peter Schuchert) Every creature has its own life span. But except for this very unique specie who belongs to the jellyfish family Scientist has disccovered that turritopsis nutricula or or also known as Medusa jellyfish is maybe the only creature to have discovered the everlasting fountain of youth.  This particular specie has the capability of cycling from a mature adult stage to an immature stage or the first stage of life  and back again that leads to no limit of life span. Studies in the laboratory show that Turnitopsis Medusae can really regenerate back to polyp stage but so far it has not been observed in nature due to some processes as of this moment. But most of Turnitopsis medusae fall like a victim or food to a bigger prey or succumbing to disease. Immortal Specie In The Kingdom Animalia! is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading

The computer that made the Internet

This is Dr. Leonard Kleinrock pinching the nipples of the Interface Message Processor, a ruggerized Honeywell DDP-516 Minicomputer

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The computer that made the Internet